SeniorSoftware Engineer II Agentic Security

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats regulatory scrutiny and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user customer and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsofts mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms devices and clouds in our customers heterogeneous environments as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.

The Agentic Security Data Platform team builds and operates Microsofts next-generation security data platform enabling the large-scale ingestion storage governance and consumption of security and identity telemetry. Our team develops scalable reliable and cost-efficient cloud-native services that enable security organizations and partners to onboard access analyze and derive insights from high-volume security data.

As a Software Engineer on the Data Platform team you will help design build and modernize the services and ingestion pipelines that capture and process security data at scale. You will work on challenging distributed systems and data platform problems and contribute to a unified platform that powers Microsofts security products. This is an opportunity to build highly scalable reliable and efficient systems that support security experiences across Microsoft.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Collaborate with engineers product managers and customers to gather requirements provide feedback and deliver effective solutions.
• Instrument data and develop key metrics to measure product usage effectiveness and customer satisfaction enabling data-driven decision making.
• Design develop and implement new identity management components features and platform enhancements.
• Debug troubleshoot and resolve complex live site issues across compute networking storage and distributed systems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability scalability performance and operational excellence.
• Analyze production telemetry and customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancements.
• Champion the adoption of modern engineering practices including automated validation safe and staged deployment strategies continuous integration and delivery and developer productivity tooling to increase both engineering velocity and operational confidence.
• Actively leverage AI-assisted engineering tools throughout the software development lifecycle including design implementation code review testing troubleshooting and documentation to improve productivity code quality and engineering effectiveness.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing building and operating large-scale distributed data pipelines or ingestion systems that process high-volume continuous data streams.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services used to build scalable production-grade ingestion systems.
• Experience operating production services at scale including monitoring troubleshooting and on-call/live-site support for distributed systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) including building and maintaining automated build test and release pipelines for production services.
• Experience leveraging new technologies including AI-assisted development and tooling to continuously improve engineering efficiency and quality.

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133800 - $219200 per year.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160200 - $261000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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